Olympic Sports
We still need the Olympics, but the Tokyo Games should have been rescheduled: Mitch Albom
These are the Anxious Games, plowing forward into the winds of a deadly pandemic. We're watching a strange and uncertain gathering of the world’s best.
Mitch AlbomDetroit Free Press
The first Olympic Games I covered were in an Alpine village in a country that no longer exists. Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, was a cheery place in 1984, despite limited resources, a town where you drank with the locals late at night and where, during the opening ceremony, they accidentally raised the Olympic flag upside down.
My first Summer Olympics came a few months later, in smoggy Los Angeles, where I rode a bicycle through heavy traffic to get to venues, and where Carl Lewis won gold medals in everything he tried.